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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
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Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
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The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
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Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
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He that's secure is not safe.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
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You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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